The Chesterfield business helping to fight climate change
The company has been carbon neutral since the beginning of the year.
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A local business has funded the planting of 508 trees across Africa.
Bridge Help - a finance company based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire - has organised for the trees to be planted across Madagascar, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique.
This makes them a carbon neutral organisation, offsetting the entire carbon footprint of its workforce.
They have also achieved a reduction in 34.44 tonnes of CO2.
Bridge Help has become carbon neutral with support from Ecologi.
Ecologi helps companies and individuals fund impactful climate solutions, plant trees, analyse carbon footprint and achieve carbon neutrality.
Chris Sellars, Chief Executive of Bridge Help, said: "What myself and the team particularly like about Ecologi, is that we are all offsetting our personal carbon output 24/7 whether we are working or not.
"It is something the whole team is passionate about and we’ll be taking further steps throughout 2022 and beyond to reduce our impact on the environment.
"We’re a growing business and it’s important to us all that our impact on the environment does not also increase."
Every member of the Bridge Help team has been registered with Ecologi.
By signing up to Ecologi, Bridge Help is directly funding high-impact climate solutions and supporting the town’s ambition to become carbon neutral by 2050.
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